Nilsa Guerrero-Mahon is a senior executive, financial expert, and strategist with broad expertise leading domestic and international corporate finance and accounting organizations. She has served as a CFO and Controller for global corporations in the technology, energy, and government sectors. Mrs. Guerrero-Mahon is qualified as an SEC “Audit Committee Financial Expert”. She has an extensive background working directly with Audit, Risk and Sustainability Committees. Mrs. Guerrero-Mahon is certified as an NACD Board Leadership Fellow and is a Member of the SASB Alliance. She is an honoree on the “2018 Directors to Watch List” published by the Directors & Boards Journal.
Mrs. Guerrero-Mahon is an experienced corporate director currently serving as the Chair of the Audit Committee of NioCorp Developments, Ltd., a publicly traded mineral development company. She also serves on the Board of Directors of FinGoal, Inc., a fintech company building AI tools for the financial services industry and fintech developers. Mrs. Guerrero-Mahon Chairs the Board of the State of Colorado Division of Securities. Earlier, she served as the Vice Chair of the Board of Directors and chaired the Strategy Committee for the Centura Health Mountains & North Denver Operating Group. In addition, she served as a gubernatorial appointed Board Member of the State of Colorado Financial Services Commission. She served as an advisor to the Microsoft’s Council for Digital Good (MCDG). MCDG’s mission is to advance
digital civility and safer online interactions as well as serving as a sounding board for Microsoft’s youth-focused policy agenda. She is currently a Mentor for Boomtown and The Farm, innovative technology startup accelerators.
Mrs. Guerrero-Mahon is experienced working with global and publicly traded companies delivering product and services management. She is multicultural and bilingual (Spanish and English), has driven compliance programs throughout large organizations with operations in multiple global jurisdictions including Latin America, Europe, and Asia. In these roles, she has also developed and led high performance teams while improving operational execution.
Mrs. Guerrero-Mahon currently manages her own consulting firm providing services in the areas of regulatory compliance, corporate governance, policies and procedures, internal controls, fraud prevention and detection, corporate accounting, and finance.
Previously, Mrs. Guerrero-Mahon was the Financial Controller and the Controls and Compliance Manager for Microsoft Global Services with up to $2.4B in P&L management responsibility. While working for Microsoft she established the Ethics & Compliance Council, developed the compliance framework, and managed the implementation of ethics and compliance initiatives in multiple worldwide locations. She also managed the CFO certification process and Audit Committee’s disclosures.
In prior positions, Mrs. Guerrero-Mahon served as a CFO for Storage Test Solutions, Inc., and a Senior Manager for Arthur Andersen serving as an interim CFO and Controller for various corporations in the technology industry. She also worked for Resources Global Professionals as the SOX Team Leader for Tyco International’s Health Care, Environmental, and Industrial Divisions in Mexico and the United States. She served as an Adjunct Faculty Member at the University of Denver.
Mrs. Guerrero-Mahon is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), the Women Corporate Directors (WCD) Foundation, the Latino Corporate Directors Association (LCDA), the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and the Microsoft Alumni Network.
Mrs. Guerrero-Mahon received an Executive MBA from the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver, a BS in Business Administration - Accounting from the Interamerican University in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and an AS in Computer Science from the EDP School of Computer Programming in San Juan Puerto Rico.